It's not all about racing, these Euro enthusiasts just want to drive and enjoy their cars
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Another great day for Euro enthusiasts
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All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Race
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Irwindale Speedway welcomed the fourth edition of Dubfest (aka Waterfest West), one of the largest watercooled VW/Audi gatherings around. Title sponsors Volkswagen of America and Falken Motorsports provided a couple of Mk V Golfs for autocross testing throughout the day. It was a great opportunity f
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The New Year in Southern California is marked by two routine events: The parties and the L.A. Auto Show. Sometimes the two roll right into each other. Normally, L.A. is not the premier show for manufacturers to make product debuts, but because of the sheer size and influence of the automotive market
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There is a scurry of activity as a new motorhome picks its way through the cars, bikes and scooters that litter the Spa paddock. Then it stops beside me and Guy Smith leans out of the driver's window to proffer a hand. It is an unlikely entrance for a Le Mans-winning racing driver, but then this is
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The R32 has done wonders for VW's performance image, reigniting performance-hungry VW loyalists' enthusiasm. "We've been waiting for this car for a long time," said Chris Mora. Chris was one of more than 60 R32 owners who attended the third-annual SoCal R32 event, hosted by VF Engineering at the its
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There is a scurry of activity as a new motorhome picks its way through the cars, bikes and scooters that litter the Spa paddock. Then it stops beside me and Guy Smith leans out of the driver's window to proffer a hand. It is an unlikely entrance for a Le Mans-
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During the past 10 years, Waterfest has grown from a small, regional car show into North America's premier VW and Audi event. Attracting hundreds of cars and tens of thousands of spectators, one would have to travel to Europe to find anything larger.
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Known simply as Waterfest, what began nine years ago as a small regional Volkswagen car show in Mahwah, New Jersey, is now considered the county's preeminent Volkswagen and Audi enthusiast event.
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Drive a couple hours north of Los Angeles on California highway 101, past the hustle and bustle of tinsel town, the vacuous Valley, the housing tracts dotting the hills and plains of Ventura County, the moneyed enclave of Santa Barbara, and then into the rolli
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Four years ago, maybe five, the crew at Rapid Parts had a simple plan--let's have a watercooled-only VW show. In the modest parking lot of a local community college, Peter Bohrman and company set up a few tents, a small autocross and an area for enthusiasts to
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The second annual Waterwagens show reminded me why, when you live in the Northwest, if you wait for it to stop raining, you'll never do anything. In spite of on-and-off torrential downpours, the show held August 4 on the campus of St. Martin's College in Olymp
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